Dundee University awarded £2 million grant from Cancer Research UK

One of the many expert teams at the University of Dundee have been successful in securing a significant grant from Cancer Research UK.

The funding is to be used to explore the role that one of the most fundamental processes in cell biology plays in the disease.

Experts hope the work will aid the discovery of new and better ways to treat cancer.

Professor Labib who leads the team said: “I am very grateful to Cancer Research UK for their support, which will enable us to expand our work with animal cells and hopefully gain insight into an important process that is defective in particular human cancers, suggesting future approaches to new therapies.”

Dr Catherine Pickworth, of Cancer Research UK, added: “It is exciting to see Professor Labib taking his work on the nuts and bolts of cell replication and progressing it from yeast to animal cells. Hopefully his research will help to understand if targeting these processes could suggest new approaches to targeting cancer cells in humans. Cancer Research UK funds innovative research like this because it is a vital part of finding new and better ways to treat cancer and we’re looking forward to following his work as it progresses.”